Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



I. M. EARLE.

BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARM.

No.189,026. Patented Apri13,1877.

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IRA M. EARLE, or PELLA, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 89,026, dated April3, 1877; application filed September 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IRA M. EARLE, of Polla,in the county of Marion, State of Iowa, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 represents alongitudinal sectional view of the arm withthe breech closed. Fig. 2 is also a longitudinal sectional View of samewith the breech opened.

The object of my invention is to secure a fire-arm in which the breechmechanism can only be operated by triggers set within the guard.

In the drawing, F is the metallic housing or frame, into the tubular endof which the barrel is screwed, while the plates clamp the stock, andform, with the shoulder E and the guard G, the walls of the chambercontaining the action. The trigger H, its spring '1, and the mainspringD are set in recesses of the wood of the stock. The breech-block A ispivoted in the housing F, and is slotted fo@ the play of thefiring-lever B. G is the cook- 'ingtrigger, also pivoted in the housingF.

The firing-lever B is pivoted to the breechblock A and to the trigger O,substantially as K is the firing-spur.

It will be seen from the foregoing that a pull on the trigger Owithdraws the spur K from the cartridge and depresses breechblock A tillit is caught by the trigger H, thus opening the breech and cooking thepiece; and, also, that a pull on trigger H releases the breech-block A,which is thrown up to close the breech by the pressure of spring D onthe spur of the trigger O, and that by this movement the spur K iscaused to strike the cartridge for the purpose of firing it.

It will also be seen that the breech-block A when closed is braced fromthe rear by shoulder E, and from beneath by lever B and trigger O, andcan only be moved by a pull on said trigger, as before described.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The firing-lever B and the trigger C, sopivoted to each other and to the breech-block A that a pull of saidtrigger withdraws spur K from the cartridge and opens the breech bydepressing the breech-block A, substantially as described.

I. M. EARLE.

Witnesses J. W. WOLFE, H. W. MORGAN.

